Cain ends rent control filibuster after marathon 12 hour speech
Senator Cain abruptly concluded his one man opposition to the rent control bill after speaking 12 hours eight minutes. The delay aimed to stall a vote on extending rent controls for six months with a local option for another six months. Senate leaders pursued a voting agreement as Cain resumed briefly after 15 minute and other recesses.
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Washington
Cain
Wash
Senate
Lucas
Illinois
Wherry
Nebraska
GOP
United States
Gal Golf Champion Slain In Ambush In Pontiac
Pontiac police hunt Lloyd Gesch 50 after he shot and killed Thelma Clark 39 a leading woman golfer. Clark's mother Rey Gorsline 58 and escort Charles Moore 38 were wounded in the early morning ambush outside Clark's home.
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Pontiac
Mich
Thelma Clark
Lloyd Gesch
Gesch
Rey Gorsline
Charles Moore
Moore
Oakland County Proscutor
Cyde Underwood
John Null
Pontiac Country Club
Waterford
Clark
Null
Underwood
Workers' Purchasing Power Rises 36 Percent
Washington reports a Labor Department analysis showing real wages for workers covered by the Social Security program rose 36 percent from 1939 to 1948 after adjusting for price increases. In current dollars average earnings climbed from 1113 to 2600, aided by wartime wage rates and overtime.
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Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Alaska Firms Indicted On Anti-Trust Charges
Attorney General McGrath announced a Alaska grand jury returned 10 indictments sealed at Anchorage. Opened before U S Judge Dimond the cases accuse price fixing and restraints of trade across shipping meats food sales fuels liquor dry cleaning and taxicab services involving 23 corporations 138 individuals and two retail liquor dealer associations.
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Washington
McGrath
Alaska
Anchorage
U.S
Anthony J. Dimond
Big
Alaska Steamship Company
Seattle
Wash
Last Chance, Inc
Mine found in train stoker coal from South Amboy blast
An anti-personnel mine from the South Amboy blast area was found in a Pennsylvania railroad train’s stoker coal pile carrying 350 passengers. All aboard were evacuated as a precaution. Robert A. Cady, a Fort Monmouth ordnance expert, removed the device by hand.
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Train
Red Bank
N. J
Pennsylvania Railroad
Army
Raymond C. Clayton
New York
Ley
Calif
Fort Monmouth
Cady
Remington Resigns to Fight Communist Charge
Washington June 9 William W Remington quits his $10,000 a year Commerce Department post to devote full time to proving in court his innocence of the charge that he has ever been a Communist.
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Washington
William W. Remington
Commerce Department
Bedford Woman Sentenced to Seven Years in Abortion Case
Mrs. Dartha Louise Fulton, 42, of Bedford, pleaded guilty to abortion, involuntary manslaughter, and larceny in the death of Alice Marie Taylor of Roanoke. Judge Birks ordered seven years for abortion, two years for manslaughter, and one year for larceny with terms to run consecutively and probation for five years. The murder charge was reduced to involuntary manslaughter.
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Bedford
Dartha Louise Fulton
Bedford County
Alice Marie Taylor
Roanoke
Charles E. Birks
Newspatermen
Bullets From Own Guns Sink B-29 Over North Sea
In a Nor folk coast incident off Great Yarmouth the B 29 bomber was set afire by bullets from its forward upper turret during gunnery practice. Four crewmen were rescued, three bodies found, four missing. Walsh cited a solenoid failure causing the guns to fire toward the aircraft.
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Sculthorpe
Eng
U. S
North Sea
Great Yarmouth
Norfolk
England
McCarthy Urges Acheson Ouster at Milwaukee Speech
Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy told 2,500 Republican delegates in Milwaukee that Dean Acheson should resign as secretary of state. He labeled Acheson the Red dean of fashion and accused him of aiding Soviet style diplomacy, drawing loud applause before a Washington response noting misstatements.
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Milwaukee
McCarthy
Wis
Dean Acheson
Wisconsin
Joe
Acheson
Harvard
Washington
State Department
Senate
Two Film Writers Begin One Year Jail Terms
Washington June 9 Two Hollywood writers John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo start one year sentences for refusing to tell Congress if they were Communists. Convicted of contempt of Congress they face possible sentence reductions while fines of 1000 dollars were paid. They argued the inquiry violated the bill of rights and condemned the move as political oppression.
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Washington
Congress
John Howard Lawson
Dalton Trumbo
House UN American Activities Committee
Supreme Court
Circuit Court of Appeals
House Committee On UN- American Activities
Communist Party
Lawson
Big Business
Truman vows U.S. aid to free nations amid cold war
President Truman pledged continued U S aid to free nations to counter Soviet subversion and external attack. He warned that abandoning Marshall Plan aid would endanger peace, spoke before about 15 000 at the University of Missouri commencement amid heavy rain.
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Columbia
Truman
Free Nations
University of Kansas City
Jackson County
Memorial Stadium
Western
Europe
United States
Mr. Truman
Frederick A. Middiebus
Virginia Rent Control Ends June 25
Housing expediter Tighe E. Woods announced that federal rent control in Virginia will end June 25 under a law passed by the state legislature and approved by the Governor. The action affects about 175,000 units.
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Washington
Tighe E. Woods
Virginia
Woods
Soviet Deserter Claims Guerrilla War in Caucasus
Soviet Army sergeant Mikhail Kuratsyev says Chechen and Ingush survivors are waging guerrilla warfare in the Caucasus. He fled east Germany two weeks after leaving Russia on home leave and sought political asylum in the British zone. He cites Soviet crimes against minority peoples as motive.
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Soviet
Berlin
Mikhail Amurkmanovyich
Kuratsyev
East Germany
Russia
Hameland
Siberia
Caucasus
Germany
Forrestal diary opens probe in Amerasia case
Senate demands access to the Forrestal diary amid ongoing Amerasia documents case questions. The diary, locked since 1949 after Forrestal's death, could reveal who ordered delays in arrests and why. Names tied to testimony include Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark and James K. Vardaman. Clark recalls no go slow, while an informant cites Forrestal.
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Amerasia
White House
James V. Forrestal
U. S. Naval Medical Center
Bethesda
Truman
Congress
Forrestal
Supreme Court
Tom Clark
James K. Vardaman
Vardaman
Congressional
Senate
Justice Clark
FBI
Clark
Department
U.S
James M. McInerney
McInerney
Jury Says They Fed Secrets To Soviets
New York June 9 a Brooklyn grand jury charged Harry Gold 39 of Philadelphia and two unnamed men with feeding atom bomb secrets to the Russians. Gold allegedly acted as intermediary between Klaus Fuchs and a wartime Soviet spy ring. The indictment names John Doe Richard Roe and Joan Doe as unknowns and accuses meetings in New York City Boston Cambridge Santa Fe. The case covers 1943 to a lengthy espionage conspiracy involving top secret U.S. atomic programs and Fuchs now in British custody. The jury heard five witnesses over three hours.
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Harry Gold
Philadelphia
Gold
Klaus Fuchs
John Doe
John
Richard Roe
Sam
Joan Doe
Russia
Fuchs
Richard Ree
Switzerland
FBI
Britain
New York City
Foston
Cambridge
Mass
Santa Fe
New Mexico
Brooklyn
United States
Los Alamos
Oil Man Denies Imports Hurting Coal Industry
Washington reports Charles L. Harding of Socony-Vacuum testifies before a Senate labor subcommittee that oil imports have little impact on coal troubles. Senator Neely and coal group leaders dispute the claim, citing foreign oil flood as a cause of layoffs and urging tariff hikes for relief.
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Charles L. Harding
Socony-Vacuum UU Company
Senate Labor Subcommittee
Neely
D-Wva
Harding
West Virginia
John D. Battie
National Coal Association
Battle
Lattie
Milk Scarce In Strike Hit Area In Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh on June 9 doctors prescriptions were required to buy milk as a 3,250 worker strike cut deliveries to about 2.5 million western Pennsylvanians. The AFL Local 205 agreed to emergency milk provisions for babies formulas hospitals and aged homes. Hospitals showed near normal supplies. Mothers crowded phone lines seeking milk while many stores faced brief shortages.
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Pittsburgh
Ex Deputy Acquitted in Girl’s Rape Case
Fairmont West Virginia June 9 Former deputy sheriff John Colantino 31 of Clarksburg was acquitted by Marion County criminal court jury of rape charges brought by a 14 year old babysitter. The girl testified Colantino allegedly raped her February 8 at his home. Colantino resigned hours before arrest after grand jury indictment. he had been freed on bond pending trial.
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Fairmont
W. Va
John Colantino
Clarksburg
Marion County Criminal Court
Colantino
Seven Arrests In Hospital Prostitution Case
FBI Agent Russell P. Kramer said six men and a woman were arrested in a probe into prostitution at Fitzsimons General Hospital. The FBI and military authorities have run the investigation since March as women visited during visiting hours or were brought by ambulatory patients.
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Denver
FBI
Russell P. Kramer
Fitzsimons General Hospital
Kramer
Senators Demand Curbs On Coffee Mart Speculators
Washington reporters say a Senate agriculture subcommittee found no coffee shortage and urged the Justice Department to challenge future contract trading. It urged higher margins for futures, government supervision of the exchange, and that foreign holdings be moved into trade channels. The panel also castigated George W. Robbins for evasive testimony and urged an investigation into his 1948 coffee purchases from the National Coffee Department of Trezi for possible federal violations. Robbins led the National Coffee Association and was a green coffee buyer for Maxwell House at General Foods.
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Wee
Fee
Sugar Exchange
Gillette Down
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Sub
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Robbins
National Coffee Department
Trezi
National Coffee Association
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General Foods Corporation
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